Sonia Roccas is a Professor at the Open University of Israel. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a post doctoral fellow at Ohio State University. She spent Sabbatical years at the University of Pennsylvania (2001) and at the University of Kent (2008). She served as Dean of Academic Studies, at The Open University of Israel (2009-2012), and as the founding director of the MA program in Social Psychology (2012-2016). She also served as Associate Editor at the European Journal of Social Psychology and is currently serving as Associate Editor at the Personality as Social Psychology Bulletin. Her research focuses on psychological processes as they relate to social identities and to value priorities. In both fields she investigates the interplaybetween personal, situational, and cultural factors. Her work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Journal of Personality, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Personality and Social Psychology Review.Lilach Sagiv is a Professor at the School of Business Administration, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She then spent a post-doctoral year at the Psychology Department at the University of Michigan, where she also spent sabbaticals as a visiting professor in 2005 and 2011.She served as an Associate Dean for Teaching at the School of Business Administration of the Hebrew University (2008-2010; 2013-2016) and is currently the Chair of the University Appointment and Tenure Committee in the Non-Experimental Sciences. She also serves as an associate editor at the European Journal of Social Psychology (2015-2017) and is serving (since 2011) on the editorial board of the Journal of International Business Studies. Her research interests focus on the impact of personal, professional and cultural level values on organizations and their members. She is investigating the mechanisms that link values to behavior and the nature of identification with groups and organizations, and is a member of the "question of identity" research group at the Scholion-Mandel interdisciplinary center at the Hebrew University. Her work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Journal of Personality, Strategic Management Journal, and Personality and Social Psychology Review.
